People's Party

Yeah, so we published a note on this early this week, so do check that out on our platform.

But a summary really is that the latest opinion polls showed that while the incumbent Spanish Socialist Workers Party have gained some ground, a coalition between the centre-right People's Party and the far-right Vox Party looks to be the most likely outcome.

I wouldn't present that as a certainty, though.

So the People's Party and Fox were in a strong position ahead of the prior general election.

And Pedro Sánchez managed to remain in government through some agreements with some of the smaller parties.

And he has a bit of a habit of pulling a rabbit out of the hat.

I think the upshot is that in aggregate, probably not much would change.

There would be some changes on a few key topics, you know, say immigration, housing, pensions and fiscal policy have been the main ones really that have been floated in the media.

Al final lo que hacen los políticos siempre es apelar a las emociones, porque eso es lo que moviliza el voto.

Y ahora tú me dices: ¿tú crees que si gobiernan PP y Vox eso va a cambiar?

Bienvenidos a un nuevo episodio de ComPE de Podcast.

Es un verdadero placer estar tras vuestra pantalla un día más.

Creo que ha incumplido muchas cosas: vivienda, precariedad.

[chasquido de lengua] O sea, podríamos hacer una larga lista, casos de corrupción, regeneración democrática.

Mmm, llegó con una promesa de acabar, y yo esto lo viví muy de cerca, ¿no? Mmm, con la corrupción del PP y hemos vuelto a, a tener escándalos muy parecidos, ¿no?

Sí.

Mmm.

Eh, y si va también el Partido Popular a dar un mitin al País Vasco, por ejemplo, se va a encontrar también con la reacción, como pasaba con Ciudadanos.

La violencia no se ejerce de una forma simétrica en este país, la violencia la ejerce la izquierda.

Y la izquierda tiene que hacer autocrítica sobre eso, porque en realidad al final con todo esto, al final lo que dices, y lo dices bien, paga el, el trabajador.

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Claro, y ahora ¿tú crees que, que sí va a salir al final PP con Vox después de esta magistral cagada que han hecho? O-

Yo creo-

Igual Feijóo sí que va a ir.

No sé si lo publicó entero, pero ya los trozos ya salieron.

A ver, a ver.

Alguien dice: "Igual Vox cede Jordi Wild al PP por acuerdo".

No, pero es que iban a ir los dos.

One is more centered than the very extreme Vox, which is unashamedly fascist.

But these two parts or two souls of the Spanish right, they were together in the Popular Party of the 90s and the early 2000s, when Mr. Aznar was Prime Minister, the leaders of Vox, the present leaders of Vox, they were members of the Popular Party.

So, you know, in a way, the family, it's all family.

I don't think that will be very different from that time.

So this was very successful, but it reached a limit.

And with popular governments, you know, there was, they conceded some things.

The Catalan police was conceded by the popular party.

So when they need the votes, sometimes they, you know, they react whether they are one side or the other.

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez defended workers' right to strike, but conservative opposition leaders accused unions of politically motivated disruption.

Polls suggest the election might produce a right-wing coalition involving the Conservative People's Party and the far-right Vox Party.

But beyond the political battle lies a growing economic question confronting nations around the world, including the U.S. What happens when you work full-time but you can no longer afford a place to live?

yeah a lot of this um you saw over the this summer and last summer of 2025 um where the locals in like madrid and barcelona like the big cities that are also tourist hot spots you saw them literally accosting tourists in their towns because they blamed and you know that their towns were being inundated not only by so much tourism that they can't the people that live there can't have normal lives and you know they can't go to their deli or whatever um but because wealthy people own a lot of those properties that would otherwise be rented to young spaniards that their airbnb And wealthy Americans or whatever people from wherever else are doing short term rentals where these already wealthy property owners are, you can upcharge, right, because people want a private home to rent or private condo or whatever and not a hotel.

Yeah.

And the Conservative People's Party, which is currently in the opposition, that party is expected to win the elections, not with an outright win.

It will probably have to do a deal with far right Vox in order to actually form a government.

And the Conservative People's Party has been very much saying that this is the unions have organised a politically motivated strike against a possible election.

future right-wing government.

That's why I said it's a very strange strike because it's almost like a strike against a government that hasn't actually been formed yet.